In its drive to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of concrete, the five-year-old Global Cement and Concrete Association has issued its second Open Innovation Challenge, which matches start-up companies with cement and concrete producers to develop technologies and processes to reduce concrete’s greenhouse gas emissions. Start-up companies have until May 15 to submit applications, says GCCA.
“We’re calling on the best and the brightest from around the world to join us in the urgent fight to limit global warming and help towards delivering the great prize of net zero concrete,” Thomas Guillot, GCCA’s chief executive, said in a release. “If you are a start-up from Austria to Australia, from Brazil to Bangladesh, with an innovative idea or technology, then we want to hear from you.”